A nine-day-old infant who was in deep coma has saved another child's life, after her parents donated her kidneys.The infant became the youngest donor in the history of south-west China's Yunnan province, Kunming-based City Times reported.The infant's mother, surnamed Zuo, suffered from placental abruption and gave birth to the baby girl on July 17.Placental abruption is the separation of the placenta from the uterus before the baby is born. The condition can deprive the baby of oxyge

RACIST “kill Chinese” graffiti and posters found in Australian universities are causing controversy on Chinese social media.The official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party,The People’s Daily, today posted a photo of graffiti on its Facebook page, which said “kill Chinese” next to a swastika. It said the material was in a University of Sydney men’s toilet cubicle on the first day of semester.It comes afterracist posters written in Mandarinalso appeared Monash and Melbourne universitie

Nerves are taut in China over the structural integrity of the Great Wall at Badaling as engineers blast a tunnel deep underneath for a record-breaking high-speed railway, and a cavernous station.The 12-km-long tunnel will sink to a maximum depth of 432m under the most visited section of China’s Great Wall, completed in 1504, to carry a trains running at 350km/h between Beijing and the city of Zhangjiakou ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which the two cities are co-hosting.Engineers are using

Satellite cameras have captured incredible images of the world’s largest floating solar farm, located in China, offering a unique view of the enormous renewable energy plant.The floating solar farm, which can generate 40 megawatts of electricity, was connected to Huainan city's power grid in May 2017.Operated bySungrow, the power station floats on a lake over a collapsed coal mine in China’s Anhui province.Satellite images of the impressive floating renewable project were captured by Spani

In an apparent bid to test his father’s love, a student from Shaanxi province in China allegedly staged his own kidnapping, leading to his arrest by police recently.According to theSouth China Morning Post(viakankanews.com), relatives of the college freshman surnamed Zhu began receiving messages via WeChat on July 13 saying he has been kidnapped.In the series of messages, the “kidnappers” sent videos and images, which among others, showed the 18-year-old bound and gagged as water is poured ov

source: phys.orgChina has welcomed the world's first giant panda cub born to a mixed pair of captive and wild parents, the official Xinhua news agency said.Palm-sized and pink, covered in a downy layer of white fuzz from its tiny claws to its long tail, the cub was born early Monday morning in southwestern Sichuan province to 15-year-old Cao Cao, who had mated with a wild male panda in March.The cub's birth is the result of researchers' efforts to boost the health and genetic diversi

China's bustling southern province of Guangdong is planning to build the world's longest coastal road, the People's Daily said yesterday, quoting a Nanfang Daily report.The proposed 1,600km-long stretch of road, which will connect 14 coastal cities when completed, is slated to be longer than the 1,055km-long California State Route 1 in the United States, according to Nanfang Daily.The coastal cities include Zhanjiang, Maoming, Yangjiang, Jiangmen, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Guangzhou, Donggu

Just a couple of months after bystanders in China flipped a car over to free a man trapped under it, another incident of people coming together to help somebody in a sticky situation has come to light.At Beijing's Dongzhimen station yesterday, commuters literally pushed a train to help a man stuck between the train and the platform. The incident took place last evening after the staff members' initial attempts to free the man failed, according to Channel News Asia.A video shows the commu

A new internet craze is sweeping the web and it sees women holding their breasts in the shape of heart and posting pictures of it online.The bizarre trend - named the heart shaped boob challenge - began earlier this week in China.And within days it has exploded on the country's most popular social network Weibo, with thousands of women wanting to take part in the challenge.It sees women grab their breasts and use their hands to mould the flesh into the shape of a heart.They then take picture

source: boingboing.netIf you owe someone money in China and kidnap them to get paid, the police are likely to treat the whole thing as a civil matter of unlawful detention and stay out of it (especially if the debtor is a foreigner and the lender is Chinese).Chinese public opinion boggles at foreigners who are outraged when their nationals are kidnapped in debt-collection procedures, and often chalk up such scandal to nationalism and a bias against Chinese people.But there are limits: don't